Frightened Sentence Examples

He drew the curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not find the baby.

She was shocked and frightened as well.

But looking into his eyes she was frightened, realizing that there was not that barrier of modesty she had always felt between herself and other men.

She was hurrying away and looked frightened to death.

I was frightened to death to talk to the police.

I was so frightened when you were late.

Natasha glanced with frightened imploring eyes at Prince Andrew and at her mother and went out.

But I'm frightened for a far different reason.

Why are these people with frightened faces stopping me?

The noise from the machine that circulated the oxygen frightened her.

This way, please... said a trembling, frightened voice behind him.

He asked, "Whose company?" but he really meant, "Are you frightened here?" and the artilleryman understood him.

Is he ill? asked Natasha, her frightened eyes fixed on her friend.

I'm really frightened now.

I was so frightened when the police called.

I'll sorely miss her frightened cries.

Here were more of the vegetable people with thorns, and silently they urged the now frightened creatures down the street.

She jerked the door open, sending frightened chickens flopping against the coop walls.

She was frightened out of her wits, like the rest of us but it's not like her to just drop out of sight, unless Quinn talked her into it.

Now play time with my frightened friend will be hurried.

"Kathleen was taken and I'm frightened to death for her," Martha reported.

Julie is frightened for him, and plain scared.

The girl wondered if he was as frightened as she.

She scooted closer to him, frightened and yet intrigued.

Yet Yancey had been frightened at the very thought of it.

The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her father-in- law and now at Princess Mary.

She gave him an imploring, frightened look.

On hearing this indifferent voice, Rostov grew frightened at what he was doing; the thought of meeting the Emperor at any moment was so fascinating and consequently so alarming that he was ready to run away, but the official who had questioned him opened the door, and Rostov entered.

"Why not?" asked Natasha in a frightened tone.

That instant, when Nicholas saw the wolf struggling in the gully with the dogs, while from under them could be seen her gray hair and outstretched hind leg and her frightened choking head, with her ears laid back (Karay was pinning her by the throat), was the happiest moment of his life.

"I shan't be violent, don't be afraid!" said Pierre in answer to a frightened gesture of Anatole's.

Suddenly several men came running up the avenue with frightened faces.

When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops.

The woman looked half frightened to death and the young boy with her never said a word.

The little pigs had stood huddled in a group, watching this scene with frightened eyes.

The frightened fox scampered away as fast as it could; and Aristomenes followed, clinging to its tail.

The look of shock on Betsy's face was immediately picked up by Molly and frightened the young girl.

The young boy was frightened and groggy but appeared unharmed.

Oh, ooh! his frightened moans could be heard, subdued by suffering and broken by sobs.

"You remember," said Sonya with a solemn and frightened expression.

His feeling of pity for this man frightened him and he wished to go away, but there was no other fire, and Pierre sat down, trying not to look at Platon.

I haven't been this frightened since I was seven years old and got locked in our cellar.

She appears more outraged than frightened which is annoying.

Fred was frightened enough of the court system already.

A minute later Sonya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared look.

Apparently it was the only thing that frightened him.

Some guy came up to him—not a skier, but whoever he was, it frightened the boy.

And how frightened he was!

The caleche flew over the ground as fast as the horses could draw it, but for a long time Count Rostopchin still heard the insane despairing screams growing fainter in the distance, while his eyes saw nothing but the astonished, frightened, bloodstained face of "the traitor" in the fur-lined coat.

"They're frightened," he said confidentially in a hoarse voice.

When little Nicholas was brought into Prince Andrew's room he looked at his father with frightened eyes, but did not cry, because no one else was crying.

She was scared of him still, and he knew it was their bond as dhjan and nishani that frightened her.

The frightened creature is as ill prepared for the season as I and scurries about frantically in the deepening snow in search of sustenance.

He hurriedly but vainly tried to get his foot out of the stirrup and did not remove his frightened blue eyes from Rostov's face.

It was very beautiful, but the disobedient fairies were too frightened to notice the beauty of the trees.

The satisfaction and well-being he garnered frightened him.

She evidently felt frightened and ashamed to have accepted charity in a house where such things could be said, and was at the same time sorry to have now to forgo the charity of this house.

She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery.

On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped.

Howie remained frightened and unconvinced.

I didn't want to come right out and say Betsy was frightened to stay alone so I just shrugged.

I think the boy is frightened of the man.

And the excited, alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, and running so lightly, frightened Rostov.

They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain.

Mademoiselle Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look.

"How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not at all as I ran," thought Prince Andrew--"not as we ran, shouting and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds glide across that lofty infinite sky!

What are you about? whispered their frightened voices.

A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became confused when she saw Prince Andrew.

But all the same that night Natasha, now agitated and now frightened, lay a long time in her mother's bed gazing straight before her.

But what an account of everything might be Nicholas knew even less than the frightened and bewildered Mitenka.

Mitenka's wife and sisters-in-law thrust their heads and frightened faces out of the door of a room where a bright samovar was boiling and where the steward's high bedstead stood with its patchwork quilt.

What sportsmen! and as if scorning to say more to the frightened and shamefaced count, he lashed the heaving flanks of his sweating chestnut gelding with all the anger the count had aroused and flew off after the hounds.

Natasha, animated and excited, looked about her with wide-open frightened eyes and seemed merrier than usual.

Natasha looked round at her, and then, red and trembling, threw a frightened look of inquiry at Anatole and moved toward the door.

"No, Father," she replied in a frightened voice.

Eager, frightened, helpless glances were turned on Alpatych when he came out of the Governor's room.

With a frightened and suffering look resembling that on the thin Frenchman's face, Pierre pushed his way in through the crowd.

"Ah!" cried Vereshchagin in meek surprise, looking round with a frightened glance as if not understanding why this was done to him.

He fancied he saw something pathetically innocent in that frightened, sickly little face.

I left it all in flames, replied Michaud in a decided tone, but glancing at the Emperor he was frightened by what he had done.

But there seemed to be no one to celebrate this holiday: everywhere were blackened ruins, and the few Russians to be seen were tattered and frightened people who tried to hide when they saw the French.

Princess Mary looked at him with frightened inquiry, not understanding why he did not reply to what she chiefly wanted to know: how was her brother?

"We don't do the French any harm," said Tikhon, evidently frightened by Denisov's words.

The general in charge of the stores galloped after the carriage with a red and frightened face, whipping up his skinny horse.

And in a history recently written by order of the Highest Authorities it is said that Kutuzov was a cunning court liar, frightened of the name of Napoleon, and that by his blunders at Krasnoe and the Berezina he deprived the Russian army of the glory of complete victory over the French. *

He's made my face all bloody, said he in a frightened whisper when the sergeant major had passed on.

He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.

A frightened woman is trussed up like a turkey, under my back bed.

I knew she remained frightened and I sensed his knowledge of the apparent closeness of the Delabama killer gave at least a modicum of comfort.

I'm frightened, Ben, really frightened.

I added, "They were frightened after what happened to me at Howie Abbott's house."

I lifted the sleeping child to my arms, and holding a concealed knife against her body, told the frightened woman to follow me, in silence.

The women looked frightened, Faust actually ducked, and David Dean moved to the cover of a nearby boulder, pulling his wife along with him.

Dean turned away from the frightened woman and hurriedly tied one end of the line to the back bumper of his Jeep.

Dean explained how they suspected it was Shipton who had frightened Donnie on the ski slope in Telluride.

The suspended cord brushed his shoulder and he could close his eyes and still see the protruding tongue, the open, frightened eyes, a body stiff and absent of life.

I always figured dad might have murdered his son and frightened the boy into silence.

How had he managed to drive all the frightened little animals into this place of safety?

I see I have frightened you--sit down and tell me all the news.

"Catch hold of my arm or you'll drop him!" he heard one of the servants say in a frightened whisper.

I did, 'pon my word, I got that frightened! said he, as if bragging of having been frightened.

The sergeant ran up to the officer and in a frightened whisper informed him (as a butler at dinner informs his master that there is no more of some wine asked for) that there were no more charges.

For some seconds they gazed with frightened eyes at one another's unfamiliar faces and both were perplexed at what they had done and what they were to do next.

"Look out!" came a frightened cry from a soldier and, like a bird whirring in rapid flight and alighting on the ground, a shell dropped with little noise within two steps of Prince Andrew and close to the battalion commander's horse.

Crowds of men of various arms, wounded and unwounded, with frightened faces, dragged themselves back to Mozhaysk from the one army and back to Valuevo from the other.

Clouds gathered and drops of rain began to fall on the dead and wounded, on the frightened, exhausted, and hesitating men, as if to say: Enough, men!

He saw the frightened and then infuriated face of the dragoon who dealt the blow, the look of silent, timid reproach that boy in the fur-lined coat had turned upon him.

Pale, frightened people were doing something around the workman.

The rustle of the battle of Tarutino frightened the beast, and it rushed forward onto the hunter's gun, reached him, turned back, and finally--like any wild beast--ran back along the most disadvantageous and dangerous path, where the old scent was familiar.

Dunyasha, her maid, entered the room quickly and abruptly with a frightened look on her face and showing no concern for her mistress.

Before her words were out, Pierre had sprung up and with a frightened expression seized Princess Mary's hand.

"Natasha, Natasha!" came Countess Mary's frightened whisper from the door.

I could see I'd frightened her but I didn't care.

Tried to put me in school, but my strange gift frightened everyone.

No other vehicles were encountered—the storm apparently frightened away the more faint-at-heart tourists.

Martha asked, a frightened look on her face.

Aunt Helen invited us back the next summer, but we were still too frightened to come.

His lifemate's expressive eyes prevented her from appearing composed; she had looked either frightened or confused during their short interaction.

Donnie clung to him like a frightened toddler.

But it was Ryland who asked his son if that was who frightened him.

When I found out Shipton had fallen, it frightened me to death.

Her sudden heart attack had frightened Cynthia, reminding her as an only child she was her mother's sole resource.

The children were inclined to be frightened by the sight of the small animal, which reminded them of the bears; but Dorothy reassured them by explaining that Eureka was a pet and could do no harm even if she wished to.

Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, almost frightened, eyes as she passed him.

The prince looked at his daughter's frightened face and snorted.

Natasha glanced with frightened eyes at the face of the wounded officer and at once went to meet the major.

Natasha, motionless on her knees (she was unable to stir), with frightened eyes riveted on him, was restraining her sobs.

He made a piteous, frightened face and bent down.

For a moment he looked frightened, and then he nodded.

His cool smile frightened her.

"Sell me the missis," said another soldier, addressing the German, who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast eyes.

At that moment the pitiful wailing of women was heard from different sides, the frightened baby began to cry, and people crowded silently with pale faces round the cook.

One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses.

Yes, we were as frightened as a kid on a high board, looking at the water below.

They did not seem frightened, but chirped softly, as if they knew they were safe.

Lisa stared at him, too frightened to move.

I was too excited to notice anything, too frightened to ask questions.

Tell me, for God's sake, what will Russia, our mother Russia, say to our being so frightened, and why are we abandoning our good and gallant Fatherland to such rabble and implanting feelings of hatred and shame in all our subjects?

But not only was it impossible to make out what was happening from where he was standing down below, or from the knoll above on which some of his generals had taken their stand, but even from the fleches themselves--in which by this time there were now Russian and now French soldiers, alternately or together, dead, wounded, alive, frightened, or maddened-- even at those fleches themselves it was impossible to make out what was taking place.

Two girls of about ten and twelve, dressed in dirty short frocks and cloaks, were staring at their mother with a look of stupefaction on their pale frightened faces.

It was very beautiful; but the idle fairies were too much frightened at the mischief their disobedience had caused, to admire the beauty of the forest, and at once tried to hide themselves among the bushes, lest King Frost should come and punish them.

The cook began running hither and thither in the passage like a frightened hen, just as Alpatych entered.

Some of the soldiers were frightened and ran away, others went on filling their bags.

Just as horses shy and snort and gather about a dead horse, so the inmates of the house and strangers crowded into the drawing room round the coffin--the Marshal, the village Elder, peasant women--and all with fixed and frightened eyes, crossing themselves, bowed and kissed the old prince's cold and stiffened hand.